Anyone with experience regarding the world and how it worked wouldn't have answered, at least not properly. Unfortunately for Yorda, she still had so very much to learn and so she replied, looking over at the stranger, "I am waiting for Mao." She turned her attention back to the message board, waiting patiently and reading silently.

The initial flare of worry which had shown itself when Ansem had looked at her in such an oddly frightening way was gone now, and the princess relaxed. Surely it had been nothing.